» Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:37 pm
I installed a transparent texture pack today and tried it out in singleplayer, in order to see what our thief sees. With the transparent texture pack, any gaps in the rock and dirt above or below ground, whether that be a single missing block or an entire tunnel, can be seen and a direct path to that gap can be easily mined. Likewise, if you have a chest hidden in an empty gap, no matter how well hidden it is with a normal texture pack, the thief can see inside it. But I figured out a way to hide your chests so the transparent texture pack wont be of any use. Lets say you have a small room with a chest inside. Because of the gap this room creates, the thief can see that it's there. So what you need to do is fill the entire room with dirt or another easy-to-mine material, so that there are absolutely no gaps left. The chests don't count as gaps, and act just like the dirt does. Once the room is full of dirt, hide the entrance behind a wall like you normally would. Then if you were to look at the room with the transparent texture pack, it would be invisible. You couldn't see it, just like you can't see all the natural dirt around you. Therefore, the thief can't find it, and your stuff is safe. Now, yes, this would mean you would have to mine out the dirt each time you wanted to access your chests, but it's a small price to pay for safety, imo. I've already converted my storage area to use this system. Now all my chests are in a narrow passage invisible to our thief thanks to the dirt, and when I want to access it, the narrow shape means it only takes seconds to mine enough out to access the chest I want.
I suggest that everyone who has been frequently robbed start using this system. Obviously you would need to find new areas for storage so the thief doesn't know where to look. But by using this method our thief will have just as much trouble finding hidden areas as those of us with normal texture packs do.